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Monday September 1, 2025. 03:29 PM
Linus has released 6.17-rc4 for testing. 'So it all looks fairly good. Please do keep testing, and we'll get 6.17 out in a timely manner and in good shape.'
Friday August 29, 2025. 07:08 PM
Linus Torvalds has quietly changed the maintainer status of bcachefs to 'externally maintained', indicating that further changes are unlikely to enter the mainline anytime soon. This change also suggests, though, that the immediate removal of bcachefs from the mainline...
Keynote sessions at Open Source Summit events tend not to allow much time for detailed talks, and the 2025 Open Source Summit Europe did not diverge from that pattern. Even so, Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of the curl project, managed to cram a lot into the 15 minutes...
The next release of systemd has been percolating for an unusually long time. Systemd releases are usually about six months apart, but v257 came out in December 2024, and v258 just now seems to be nearing the finish line; the third release candidate for v258 was published on...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (aide, fence-agents, firefox, kernel-rt, python-cryptography, and thunderbird), Debian (golang-github-gin-contrib-cors, libxml2, and udisks2), Fedora (chromium), Oracle (postgresql16, postgresql:16, python3.11, and thunderbird), ...
Thursday August 28, 2025. 11:46 PM
Attendees at EuroPython had the chance to preview part of Python: The Documentary during a keynote panel. The full film, created by CultRepo, is now available on YouTube: This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.4, 6.12.44, 6.6.103, 6.1.149, 5.15.190, 5.10.241, and 5.4.297 stable Linux kernels. Each one contains important fixes.
The GNOME project, which recently celebrated its 28th birthday, has never had a formal technical governance; progress has been driven by individuals and groups that advocated for—and worked toward—a particular goal in an ad hoc fashion. Longtime GNOME contributor...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (aide, firefox, kernel, and mod_http2), Debian (chromium and unbound), Fedora (mod_auth_openidc), Oracle (fence-agents and kernel), SUSE (ignition, jetty-minimal, kernel, libmozjs-128-0, matrix-synapse, postgresql13,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Groklaw takeover; CRL cache sharing; browsers and XSLT; Microdot; restartable sequences; shadow-stack control Briefs: Android restrictions; Arch services; GhostBSD 25.02; FFmpeg 8.0; PyCon videos; Quotes;... ...
Wednesday August 27, 2025. 07:25 PM
Alyssa Rosenzweig has written a blog post about her work to help ship a 'great driver' for the Apple M1 GPU that supports OpenGL, Vulkan, and enables gaming with Proton. We've succeeded beyond my dreams. The challenges I chased, I have tackled. The drivers are fully...
The Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) language is used by web browsers to style XML content to make it easily readable; XSLT is part of the HTML living standard that is maintained by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). Only a...
The GhostBSD project has released version 25.02 of the FreeBSD-based desktop operating system. This release brings GhostBSD up to date with FreeBSD 14.3, includes enhancements for the Software Station package management application, and introduces an 'OS X-like' desktop envir...
The Internet is a wonderful thing; it allows anybody to look up information of interest. Included in all of that is the history of the free-software development community; how we got to where we are says a lot about why things are the way they are and what might come next....
Security updates have been issued by Debian (node-cipher-base), Fedora (keylime-agent-rust and libtiff), Oracle (aide, kernel, mod_http2, pam, pki-deps:10.6, python-cryptography, python3, python3.12, and thunderbird), SUSE (cheat, ffmpeg, firebird, govulncheck-vulndb,...
Tuesday August 26, 2025. 09:16 AM
Shadow stacks are a control-flow-integrity feature designed to defend against exploits that manipulate a thread's call stack. The kernel first gained support for hardware-implemented shadow stacks, for the x86 architecture, in the 6.6 release; 64-bit Arm support followed in...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, firebird3.0, and luajit), Fedora (chromium, python3-docs, and python3.13), Oracle (aide, firefox, glibc, libxml2, and tomcat), Red Hat (aide, git, kernel, kernel-rt, libarchive, pam, python-cryptography, python3,...
Google has announced a new set of restrictions on the ability of users to install apps on their own devices: Starting next year, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified Android devices. This...
Monday August 25, 2025. 05:29 PM
The PyCon team has announced that all PyCon US 2025 recordings are now available on its YouTube channel. We had an amazing and diverse group of community members join us for PyCon US 2025, attending from 58 different countries! By the numbers, we welcomed a total attendance ...
In July 2024, Let's Encrypt, the nonprofit TLS certificate authority (CA), announced that it would be ending support for the online certificate status protocol (OCSP), which is used to determine when a server's signing certificate has been revoked. This prevents a...
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